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Sentence Examples Our heroine goes in search of the fabled Pandora's Box in order to stop a bio-weapons baron opening it up. But in February 2004, newspaper baron Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour received an unusually explicit judicial whipping. A drug baron vows revenge on Steed, Gambit, and Purdey after they foil the delivery of one of his shipments. And he would talk about greed and the women who threw themselves at the drug baron and happily carried his drugs. Jay Gould, the railroad baron, ordered sets of photographs and a Gerome album from Knoedler. In one delightful sequence, Bertie urges Churchill to form a new government, but asks that he leave newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook out of it. In turn, the double sirloin joined by the lumbar spine became punningly known as a baron of beef. But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect. Her parents were a baron and baroness and they had an older son as well that was to inherit the fief. Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs. John said he bought the titles to stop them falling in to foreign hands but would not be calling himself a baron. However, there was often an overlap in the type of business conducted in the court baron and court leet. William Marshal was a powerful, respected, wise and loyal knight and baron who had already served two Angevin kings. The media baron revealed himself adept at delivering gossipy snippets in an in-depth interview with the Financial Times last week. In pretending to be a baron and a countess, the pair pokes fun at rigid class structures and upper-crust, titled society. My head was in a whirl with all that I was seeing, and I kept pleading with the baron to make our cab go slower so I could look around. Always on the run from creditors, the baron fetched up in Naples a year before Hamilton arrived. Back in 1904, immigrant water baron William Mulholland arrived here with Frederick Eaton, the retired L.A. mayor and water hound. The colour of the chapeau may be altered to denote the status of the baron. In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it. Show More Sentences It seemed the current baron had more important charges on his purse than sheltering his people against attack. The baron pressed the ornate seal ring on his finger, and clenched his fist. He is a robber baron who made his money through despicable behavior and monopolism. He had to swear an oath to the baron, duke or earl, collect taxes when told to do so and provide soldiers from his land when they were needed. Such is the case with a rancher named Baxter, a selfish baron so cold-hearted and villainous he lacks only a handlebar mustache to twirl. The media baron has always had a high opinion of himself and a low one of many others. The company may be taken over by a robber baron such as Maxwell who clears out the pension fund for his own personal gain. How could this be possible, this unfair life of toil, all for a lethargic baron who lived in comfort? Famous for his flamboyant style, the baron looked drawn and haggard after two nights in police cells. The previous baron and baroness retired, and so a new baron and baroness were created by the king. Blair has spent a year cuddling up to Silvio Berlusconi, the media baron and Italian prime minister. Wayne is a wounded gunslinger helping old friend Mitchum, an alcoholic sheriff, battle a nefarious cattle baron. Even now I hardly care who it is whether it be a baron, a duke, an earl, or a lowly serf. The great church doors at the very end of the abbey were opened, and Evangelina Stiles was coming in on the hand of her father, the Stiles cigarette baron himself. In 2012, the Kazakh foreign minister actually thanked baron Cohen for making the movie. It is the prerogative of a viscount or a baron to make a person feel small, and of a baronet to extinguish him. Longtime press baron and Murdoch frenemy Conrad Black on what Michael Wolff got wrong in his new biography of the media titan. The wives of a king, prince, duke, marquess, earl, viscount and baron are queen, princess, duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess and baroness respectively. She wasn't sure if it had been the kick to the head or if she had just misheard him, but suddenly the baron looked entirely too pleased to see her. It no longer seems as startling for the Queen, as here, to be climactically confronted by a City baron dressed as Mother Goose or told that her son is off his rocker. Show More Sentences The mission sees the team transporting an international drug baron. The drug baron was arrested in August last year in a phone box in the fishing village of Sant Pol de Mar, 230 days after he absconded from Liverpool Crown Court. Born a baron, engaged to marry a member of the von Bismarck family, a musical success early on, the composer belonged to the cream of society. Further up river are the classic Gothic ruins of Hanstein Castle, the former seat of a robber baron. The compulsively aggressive Australian is a great businessman, writes press baron and Rupert frenemy Conrad Black. It is the anachronistic work of a nostalgic and megalomaniac baron, pining for the prerogatives of a feudal age in its death throes. By the 13th century most manorial lords had established two courts, leet and baron, which met at the same place and whose proceedings followed one another. Isabella Rossellini brings a wonderfully biting performance to the screen as the legless beer baron, her self-loathing and sensuality an intoxicating combination. They are being sold by Manorial Auctioneers of London on behalf of Lord Hothfield, a Cumbrian-based baron whose lineage stretches back to the middle ages. The building had been around since the end of eighteenth century, planned by Lord Radcliffe, an English baron, who also was one of the first settlers of Greenwood. Marlborough prospered after Charles's victory over the Exclusionists in 1681, becoming a baron in the Scots peerage and colonel of the Royal Dragoons. Because they had sworn an oath to their lord, it was taken for granted that they had sworn a similar oath to the duke, earl or baron who owned that lord's property. What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance. In 1924, the baron Philippe de Rothschild has been the instigator of the full bottle-filling at the Chateau, which has been made before. The bad guy in Tomorrow Never Dies is Elliot Carver, an international media baron scheming to wreak havoc on a global scale. Not only the emperor but any backwoods abbot or baron could propose legislation, often as banal as the EU's regulation of cucumber curvature. And, if the jute baron scares other poorly performing companies, so will India. But it becomes clear that she wants Inge to move on and marry Didrich, who is now the baron, following the suicide of his father. McKay also accused the coal baron of making an offer to evade campaign funding laws in order to contribute money to her 2011 election campaign. I am thinking in particular of that French baron who tries to look modern by speaking American when he is speaking on behalf of big employers. Show More Sentences The baron ought to be repellent, but he quickly gathers the audience on his side, as an unlikely agent for freedom in a repressive, ossified society. The final nail was the defection of Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester, the most powerful baron and Simon's ally at Lewes. There a baron was created and seised by the king in a single act. His tenure was a function of his personal relationship with his lord king. In 1799, the most vicious robber baron of them all met its final end. The novel, a gritty tale of the rise of a drug baron, generated controversy with its raw subject matter and sales skyrocketed. Asquith's surprise victory was helped by the support of the press baron Lord Rothermere. He immediately put his friend and confidant, industrialist and newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook, in charge of aircraft production. The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron. The continued existence of courts baron and introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds. This allowed Barclays to advance billions of pounds of incautious loans: to home-owners, small businessmen and even to Robert Maxwell, the late media baron and fraudster. In 1893 his eldest son Francis was made a baron, thus giving him an automatic seat in the House of Lords. In the Scottish order of precedence, a laird ranks below a baron and above a gentleman. During the reign of king Louis XIII of France, and his statesman the Cardinal Richelieu, the baron de Beausoleil and his wife Martine de Bertereau successfully discovered 150 mines in France using various divining rods. After the battle, the press baron Lord Northcliffe reduced his support of Haig. The story of the bike started with the famous hobby horse, an invention by German baron Karl Drais von Sauerbronn that was presented in 1817 at les jardins du Luxembourg in Paris. These juju potions are untradeable, and offer a variety of benefits, including increased herb yields, attracting spirits to transport logs and ores to your bank, and the ability to fish the elusive baron shark. An arrow was fired, possibly by the baron Walter Tirel, which hit and killed William Rufus. Before him sat the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and ratsbane. Wronged by a local baron and with his wife murdered, Mikkelsen's 16th-century horse trader sets about raising an army to mete out revenge. Show More Sentences Even Fletcher looks the part of a Vegas casino baron in his bright red sportcoat. The continued existence of courts baron and the introduction of kirk sessions helped consolidate the power of local lairds. The brilliantly intellectual baron de Charlus suffers a stroke. It was built in about 1067 by the Norman baron Hamelin de Ballon to guard against incursions by the Welsh from the hills to the north and west. In November John retook Rochester Castle from rebel baron William d'Aubigny in a sophisticated assault. He's also a drugs baron and when she interrupts him in the process of rubbing out a stool pigeon, she has to run for her life. In modern Copenhagen, Claudia tries to sell the jewels she stole from the old baron but ends up fleeing the shop and making a tearful confession to him about the theft. This confidence so daintily tossed to the baron, in the fashion of a postscriptum, was evidently the compensation for five thousand francs. The committee chairman, Sir Richard Ottaway – there were a lot of sirs in the room and at one point we had two Sir Johns and a John Baron, who isn't actually a baron, talking to one another – eventually interceded. This Gothic Revival inspired structure was constructed in 1867-68 as the coach house of lumber baron Joseph Currier's residence and is now the only building which remains from his original estate. In 1788 he was made a baron and in 1796 a field marshall. Back in 1920, the castle and 70 h estate were put up for sale and bought by baron Adhémar de Royer de Dour de Fraula and it is now occupied by his son Adolphe. The first information received is from 1594, according to which the manuscript was at Forstegg castle at Rohrschach under the ownership of the baron of Hohensax. Among them is Diego Rivas, who was shot dead in 2011 after composing a song in praise of Joaquin Shorty Guzman, Mexico's most wanted drug baron. In addition, the vassal could have other obligations to his lord, such as attendance at his court, whether manorial, baronial, both termed court baron, or at the king's court. Additionally, the Act provided for the appointment of two persons to be Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, who were to sit in the House of Lords under the dignity of baron. Family man and horse trader Michael Kohlhaas suffers an injustice at the hands of a young baron and when the law fails to give redress he takes up the sword. For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses. However, the Victorian castle stands on the footings of a much older medieval castle possibly built by Ifor Bach, a regional baron with links to Cardiff Castle also. The name baronet is a diminutive of the peerage title baron. Show More Sentences This was built using money made by Sunlight Soap baron William Lever, who improved traditional soap with the addition of pine kernel oil and used branded packaging. Numerous barons were subjected to John's malevolentia, even including William Marshal, a famous knight and baron normally held up as a model of utter loyalty. Serfdom died out in Scotland in the 14th century, although through the system of courts baron landlords still exerted considerable control over their tenants. Always ambitious, this tale of a minor criminal up against a ferocious drug baron and the full might of the NYPD becomes just a little too convoluted. European ranks of nobility lower than baron or its equivalent, are commonly referred to as the petty nobility, although baronets of the British Isles are deemed titled gentry. Historically, once nobility was granted, if a nobleman served the monarch well he might obtain the title of baron, and might later be elevated to the rank of count. Cardiff Crown Court heard Reed admitted giving vital information about the investigation to a contact who then passed it on to the suspected drug baron. In Baalbek itself, friends and relatives of the slain drug baron, Ali Abbas Jaafar, fired celebratory gunshots into the air, an AFP correspondent said. Indeed, upon ennoblement, a count or baron not from an armigerous family might actually assume his own, original coat of arms without recourse to any authority. In 1808 the imperial nobility was completed with the ranks of count, baron, and chevalier, all of them hereditary. I told Seiler that I certainly did remember Edo Vanni, an outfielder who passed through briefly as a baron. Usually, a minor knight might hold a few acres from a baron, who in turn held the land from a count or earl, who in turn held large tracts of the king. With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Examples from Classical Literature He received several munificent grants of crown land, and was created chief baron of the exchequer and a knight banneret. The baron raged like a tiger, and the cottager laid about him like a thresher. And we will hold the escheat in the same manner in which the baron held it. On the afternoon of the third, the baron rode off to the post town to make inquiries. The baron meeting Foote complained of this usage, and asked what he should do? He's a braw hoon an' A'm encouraged by the fine things that the baron said aboot ma poetry. However, whether he was a baron or an untitled man, he merits a share of admiration. Upon his Ishmaelite neck was firmly fastened the collar of vassalage to the baron of the Quarterhouse. The baron chuckled in his throat and seemed to luxuriate in the pleasant thought. From the shields, there is not one of these vessels which hath not knight or baron aboard. The baron was inflexible in his resolution not to let Matilda leave the castle. The baron guessed at this circumstance from the customs of that age, and happened to be in the right. And the mesne lord will often be a very great man, some prelate or baron with a widespread honour. When peace was made, Edward summoned him again as a baron and gave him the Garter and the treasurership of his household. When the court-leet was differentiated, the court baron remained with feudal rights alone. The lounger was Baron Tripeaud, the manufacturing baron the stock-jobber. The banneret and the baron were therefore soldiers of equal authority. The banner of the banneret and baron was displayed by the squire. Doesn't the baron look just too distinguished beside Mr. Higbee? Not a baron or an earl, and only one baronet, hath taken up arms for me. Show More Sentences He made a raid on a neighboring baron and completed his outfit with the booty secured. The baron was amazed, and the bridemaidens were disconcerted. And the baron with a fillip of the finger made this toy whirl round. Neither his mother nor the baron noticed his attitude of spitefulness. The worthy baron comported himself everywhere rather as if he were at home. On the whole, he was like a baron of the olden time in a rare good humour. No feudal baron in Magna Charta times could have more thoroughly resented some incursion of the crown. Tuesday, the ultimate robber baron, is calling in his debts, and Arthur's very world will be part of the price. Despite his near-addiction to big deals, and the ruthlessness with which he so often carries them out, Hindery is not your typical robber baron. Bishop Henry fell prey to the stereotype of Black as some kind of a 19th century robber baron striding across the faces of the workers. On the other hand, dulcinea's governor is a stout baron of the old school. The dissimilar but united loyalties of those two people had been rewarded by the title of baron and the ribbon of some order or other. This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour. The most petty baron may arrest, try, and condemn a witch found within his own domain. He left a fortune of several millions in good current coin, and everything came to our noble scion, our gaitered baron, formerly treated for idiocy in a Swiss lunatic asylum. The only institution standing in front of the robber baron tactics of the Zardari regime, said Imran Khan, is the Judiciary particularly the Supreme Court. And with cracking joints the fat baron plumped down upon his marrow bones. The baron knows, as well as myself, that Milady de Winter is a very guilty woman, and it is treating her very favorably to commute her punishment to transportation. The baron, with some of his retainers and all the foresters, halted at daybreak in Sherwood forest. By the side of each baron, a squire, also on horseback, carried the seigniorial banner. Show More Sentences A little glass of amontillado with the oysters, said the baron, just to flavor them! Near him lay another baron, Pandolfo of the lords of belvedere. Why, baron, who would have thought to meet you thus in a Savoyard inn? Yet, speaking of reports, baron, what have you learned with regard to the affair in the Rue Saint-Jacques? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of baron? Words that rhyme with baron What is the plural of baron? What is the adverb for baron? What is the adjective for baron? What is the noun for baron? Translations for baron Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words barometry barometric pressure barometrical barometric barometers barometer Baron baronage baroness baronet baronetage baronetcy 5-letter Words Starting With b ba bar baro